Composite tool.



J. A. GAGNON.

COMPOSITE TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-8.1918.

Patented Apr. 29, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. Q9, 1919.

Application filed August 8, 1918. Serial No. 248,965.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH ARTHUR GAG- NON, a subject of the King of England, residing at Upton, county of Bagot, 1n the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, hzwe invented new and useful Improvements in Composite Tools, of which the following is a specification.

As its primary object, the inventlon seeks to provide a device in the form of a com posite pocket tool adapted for eatlng purposes. To this end the inventlon comprises a handle formed in two detachable sections, each one of which carries an implement for the useful purpose above stated. The two sections of the handle are easily separable, but when united provide a means in which the several implements may be incased or inclosed. v

A further object of the invention 1s to provide adevice of this kind which is extremley simple in construction, durable and effective in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

Still further and other objects will appear in the following description wherein the invention is set forth in detail.

W'hile illustrated and described in a specific embodiment, the invention is not to be restricted to such embodiment. Its actual reduction to practice may suggest certain desirable changes or alterations and the right is claimed to make any which do not depart from the spirit of the sub-joined claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the improved device with its several implements in open position the two sections comprising a handle being united.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig, 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing that section of the handle carrying the knife implement.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view. of that handle section carrying the fork implement.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a handle composed of sections 1 and 2 each of which is rounded on one face but rabbeted on the other face so as to leave a longitudinal rib 3 adjacent one edge of the section.

Secured to the section 1 at one end there is an implement 4 which is pivotally mounted on a pin 5 carried by the section. This implement is designed for can-opening purposes and may be turned over on the pin 5 so that it lies Within the edges of the section to which it is attached, or turned where it may rest against one edge of the rib 3, in which position it projects beyond the end of the section, so as to be useful for the purpose for which it is designed.

At the other end of the section 1 there is pivotally mounted a knife element 6 carried by a pin 7, so that it may be moved relative to the section in the same way that the can-opening element 1 is moved. The section 2. carries a spoon element 8 and a fork element 9 secured thereto by pins 10 and 11 respectively, so that either of these two elements, or both may be shifted relative to their attendant section in the same way that the knife and canopening elements are shifted.

When the sections 1 and 2 of the handle are attached together, the ribs 3 of the two sections lie face upon face and the rabbete'd portions thus provide a pocket or incasing means for the several elements carried by the device.

Carried by the section 2 and projecting from its rib 3 in which it is centrally disposed both with reference to the length and width of the rib, there is a stud 12; and this stud is designed to enter a hole 141 formed at a corresponding point in the rib 3 of the section 1, thus providing for the placing of the two sections with their ribs face to face in such a manner that they may be moved angularly with respect to each other with the stud 12 as a pivot.

Adjacent to one end of its rib 3, the section 2 carries a keeper plate 15 formed with a slot 16. Similarly the section 1 is equipped but at the opposite end of its rib relative to the position of the keeper on the rib of the section 2. Each of the sections, further than being provided with the keeper just de scribed, is provided with a headed stud 17 so positioned that its head may engage underneath the keeper plate of the opposed section and its shank enter the slot of the said keeper plate. It will be observed that this construction provides for the keeping of the two sections together when they are in alinement, the studs and keeper plates of the two being then in engagement, The

turning of one section angularly relative to the other so that the two are thrown out of alinement serves to disengage the studs and keeper plates, whereupon the two sections may be separated and the two sections used in any desired combination, as a knife and fork, or knife and spoon, depending on whetherthe fork or the spoon is extended to a position where its attendant section may serve as a handle for it.

It is obvious, also, that any one of the implements of the device may be used individually without separating the two sections of the handle, the desired implement being drawn from the pocket which the two sections are designed to form and extended to open or operable position.

From the foregoing description, it is be lieved that a clear enough understanding of the invention will be had to render unnecessary any extended explanation, and the drawings illustrate the invention clearly enough to give a complete understanding of its construction.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A tool of the kind described comprising a handle formed in two sections each of which is rabbeted on one face so as to leave a longitudinal rib adjacent one edge, implements pivotally mounted on each of the sections adjacent each end and in the rabbeted portion, and means for detachably connecting the two sections together so that their longitudinal ribs will lie face to face where by the rabbeted portions of the two sections will provide a pocket in which the implements may be inclosed.

2. A tool of the kind described comprising a handle formed in two sections each of which is rabbeted on one face so as to leave a longitudinal rib adjacent one edge, implements pivotally mounted on each of the sections adjacent each end and in the rabbeted portion, one section having a stud projecting from it and positioned centrally in its longitudinal rib, the other section having a hole formed at a corresponding point in its longitudinal rib for pivotal engagement with the said stud, and keeper plates and headed studs carried one each by each of the sections and positioned on opposite sides of the stud and hole respectively, the keeper plate of one section engaging the headed stud of the other section for the useful purpose specified.

In testimony whereof he alhxes his signature.

JOSEPH ARTHUR GAGNON.

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